Counters in rte_eth_stats

Link-Inline™ Software Features

Platform
Napatech SmartNIC
Content Type
Feature Description
Capture Software Version
Link-Inline™ Software 3.2

This describes counters that can be retrieved via the DPDK API rte_eth_stats_get using the rte_eth_stats structure.

Supported counters in rte_eth_stats

This table shows supported fields in the rte_eth_stats structure.

Field

Description

ipackets

Number of received frames.

opackets

Number of transmitted frames.

ibytes

Number of received bytes.

obytes

Number of transmitted bytes.

imissed

Number of RX frames dropped by the HW, because there are no available buffer.

ierrors

Number of received frames with CRC and code violation errors as well as layer 3 and 4 checksum errors.

oerrors

Number of transmitted frames with CRC and code violation errors as well as layer 3 and 4 checksum errors. This counter is always 0.

q_ipackets

Number of received frames associated to a queue.

q_opackets

Number of transmitted frames associated to a queue.

q_ibytes

Number of received bytes associated to a queue.

q_obytes

Number of transmitted bytes associated to a queue.

q_errors

Number of frames with CRC and code violation errors as well as layer 3 and 4 checksum errors associated to a queue.